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'90s Kids Should Be Able to Finish These Cheesy Product Slogans. Can You?

Lauren Lubas

Procter & Gamble

Bounty paper towels were also known as the "quicker picker" what?

Upper

Downer

Supper

Towel

The '90s gave us a lot of great slogans with words used out of context. Sure, Bounty towels picked up your messes quick, but do we have to call it a picker upper? That seems like a machine that was invented to lift large objects.

Pexels / Aman Jakhar

What did Nike ask you to do in the 1990s? "Just Do _____"

Sports

Games

Basketball

It

If you were in middle school or high school in the 1990s, you may have been propositioned with this slogan or some other pun that went along with the product. Nike had a nice idea for a slogan, if children didn't call a certain *other* activity "it."

Ilitch Holdings

Little Caesar's Pizza doubled their efforts in the '90s with what slogan? "Pizza _____"

Times 2

Pizza

Meatsa

Cheetsa

When you got two pizzas for the price of one, you knew you were getting a deal. If you were lucky, your parents sprang for some crazy bread to add to your carb feast ... but only if you were lucky.

Berkshire Hathaway

According to Geico, what can 15 minutes save you? "15 Minutes can save you ________"

50% or more

30% or more

20% or more

15% or more

It wasn't about 15 minutes of fame with Geico. However, they did their best to skip the cold-calling step, and pleaded with people to call them, offering a possibility of saving hundreds of dollars on their car insurance. The slogan worked very well for the company.

American Express via YouTube

What is the end of this slogan? "Don't leave _______"

Me

Your side

Home without it

My side

American Express used to offer a protection plan on items you bought with the card. These days, however, they leave it up to the stores who sell the items, but they do want to remind you not to leave home without that credit card of yours.

Mars

These candies are special, because of how the chocolate melts. "It melts in your mouth, not in your ____" what?

Feet

Hand

Belly

Eyes

M&Ms candies had a lot of great slogans in the 1990s. Who could forget the blatant exploitation of the Millennium commercials in 1999? In the early 1990s, however, they stuck to what they were good at: explaining how the chocolate melted in your mouth and not in your hand.

Pixabay / beearJIn

Do you remember which candy was the freshmaker? "_______, the freshmaker"

Altoids

Icebreakers

Chillers

Mentos

Some of the commercials of the 1990s tended to get a little weird. This was because people didn't want to be "sold" on products, they wanted to be entertained while they watched television. Mentos did a great job of creating 30-second stories with their commercials.

Sure UK & Ireland

If you wore this deodorant, you had confidence, but how do you finish the slogan? "Raise your hand if _______"

You're sure

You're confident

You know the answer

You sweat

Deodorant commercials before the 1990s weren't up to par with the entertainment that was necessary to keep a viewer's attention. However, if the deodorant commercials had songs and stories, they became memorable.

The J.M. Smucker Company

According to this coffee, what was the best part of waking up? "The best part of waking up is ______"

A hot coffee cup

Folgers in your cup

A soldier in your cup

Listening to rap

The early 1990s brought us a lot of jingles that we may never forget. One of those jingles was the song that showed people having a wonderful and relaxing morning with a cup of coffee and a quiet house. It wasn't realistic, but it was effective.

Shutterstock

This cereal changed its entire look to create this slogan. Can you finish it? "The taste you can ____"

See

Taste

Touch

Smell

Cinnamon Toast Crunch wasn't a terrible tasting cereal. The idea was that you had cinnamon and sugar toast for breakfast, so why not turn that into a cereal? The company even went so far as to create brand mascots, the chefs, to appeal to young children, but it wasn't until the children could see the taste on the bits of cereal that they believed it was good.

Star-Kist Samoa, Inc

What did this apologetic tuna company have to say? "Sorry, ______"

Angie

Dolphins

Charlie

Carry

Tuna companies were in a lot of trouble in the 1990s, as we learned what bycatch was and how for every can of tuna we ate, one Flipper was murdered in fisherman's net. It made people start to wonder who Starkist was actually apologizing to.

Shutterstock

This cereal had a magic flavor. How did the slogan go? "They're magically ______"

Magical

Sweet

Fruity

Delicious

It seems like the big word of the decade was "Delicious." Everything had to be delicious in the 1990s, and the word delicious popped up in a lot of ads (pay attention, because we're giving you hints for future questions). Lucky Charms were magical and delicious ... they were magically delicious.

Pixabay / jp26jp

"When it absolutely, positively has to be ______" can you finish this slogan?

FedEx

There overnight

UPS

A diamond

FedEx wanted everyone to know that they moved quickly. However, if you showed up at one of their stores to drop off a parcel after 11 am, overnight basically meant the day after tomorrow.

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Another slogan in song form, can you finish this one from a Chili's commercial? "I want my ________"

Fajita

Cheeseburger

Money back

Babyback ribs

"Doo nDoo Da Doo Doo" ... erm, sorry. We all know this song rather well, and most of us can't hear it without envisioning *NSync on a beach, begging for ribs. Oh, Justin Timberlake ... you hit that note perfectly.

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Sonny the bird was "Cuckoo for _______" what cereal?

Mother nature

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Lucky Charms

Cocoa Puffs

There was something about making cereal mascots do some crazy things. We all know the Trix Rabbit tried to steal, but Sonny was the craziest of all. He even admitted to being crazy for the chocolate cereal he represented.

Campbell's Soup never joined the cartoony craze of marketing to children in the 1990s. Their commercials were wholesome and warmed your heart, like their soup warmed your belly (and gave you heartburn).

Kraft Heinz Company

If you were low on mustard, you might pull up to a Rolls Royce and ask the other person "Pardon me, do you have any ________" what?

Grey Poupon

French's

Heinz

Ketchup

The actual slogan for Grey Poupon mustard was "One of life's finer pleasures," but everyone remembers the question being asked. Some uptight rich dudes in a car are battling over a jar of mustard.

Cereal Time TV via YouTube

Kix was a great cereal that didn't have a whole lot of sugar, making it "Kid tested, ______" what?

Kid approved

Parent approved

Father approved

Mother approved

Kix were a great cereal for kids who didn't like sweet breakfasts. Yes, there were children out there who didn't enjoy a giant bowl of sugar for breakfast, but for the most part, it was the last cereal left in the pantry in the summer time.

Shutterstock

Do you remember the slogan for Honey Nut Cheerios? "It's a honey of a _____"

Good time

O

Bear

Bee

We know the honey bee from Honey Nut Cheerios commercials very well, but a lot of people don't realize that he started off as a cartoon (not CGI) who bizzed and buzzed around guys singing at the piano.

KFC Holding Co

KFC claimed their chicken was "finger lickin' _____" what?

Gross

Greasy

Good

Hot

If you didn't have a napkin while eating KFC, you had to lick your fingers. Not necessarily because it was good chicken, but that's what the slogan wanted you to think. We guess, for some, grease is good, so it probably isn't false advertising.

JunkFoodTasterDotCom via Youtube

Do you remember how cool Poptarts were in the '90s? "So cool, they're ______"

Good

Hot

Delicious

Awesome

Wouldn't it be better to say that Poptarts were so hot, they were cool? Have you ever tried to eat one of those directly out of the toaster? If so, you probably remember the icy heat sensation as the fruit filling cauterized your taste buds.

Shutterstock

If you popped this canister, something terrible might happen, because "once you pop, you ____" Can you finish the slogan?

Explode

Have fun

Can't stop

Run away

What better way for Pringles to take advantage of the compulsive eating nature of people in the 1990s. They wanted to let you know that it was totally cool to eat without stopping, as long as it was their chips you were stuffing in your face.

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"When pizza's on a bagel, you can have pizza _____" when?

In the morning

In the evening

At supertime

Anytime

If you've ever eaten these, you probably never wanted pizza again. However, they were a fun marketing ploy in the 1990s, as all '90s kids just wanted pizza for dinner (exclusively), and if they could have some for a snack, it helped parents curb their cravings.

BarSoap Guy via YouTube

According to this soap commercial you can't be clean until you use their soap. "You're not fully clean, unless you're _______"

Zestfully clean

Dialed up

Caress clean

Irish Spring clean

If you aren't singing this slogan in your head right now, you probably never saw the commercial. Of course, when they sing it, it seems like the words zest and fully are separated.

HeyThatsMike via YouTube

"Pop! goes ____" which board game?

Monopoly

Perfection

The weasel

Shark Attack

If you're wondering why '90s kids have anxiety, look no farther than this game. You had to be perfect and fast, or you got a bunch of plastic shapes blown into your face. Nothing scary about that.

Taco Bell

This little chihuahua let everyone know what he wanted. What did he say? "Yo _________"

I want Wendys

I want a dog

Quiero Taco Bell

I want a friend

Of all of the cultural appropriation happening in the 1990s, the chihuahua Taco Bell commercials took the cake and splattered it all over Latinx culture. At least they made plush toys out of it, we guess.

Sir Sebastian via YouTube

We all know that Ring Pops were lollipops without sticks, but can you finish the rest of this song? "A ring of flavor you can ___"

Stick

Flick

Lick

Whip

If a boy wanted to marry you, you got a Ring Pop on Valentine's day. You probably never married that boy, though. This was mostly because the Ring Pop was gone by lunch time, and so was the romance.

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Ronald McDonald liked to ask people this question: "Do you _____" what?

Even Mac Attack?

Believe in magic?

Like McDonalds?

Have a dollar?

You're probably still singing the end of that song, so we'll wait for you to finish ... Now that you're done, it's important to know that McDonald's really had a lot of great slogans in the 1990s, and believing in magic was a part of those slogans.

duncanbros via YouTube

"Just what the Dr. _____" can you finish the slogan for Dr. Pepper?

Ordered

Peppered

Found in my stomach

Did

Before Lil' Sweet popped up in our living rooms and on our phone ads, we had a prescription from the Dr. Pepper commercials. It was telling people that this drink was all they needed to relax and have fun.

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Who does Domino's want you to avoid? "Avoid the ___"

Tutles

Shredder

Noid

Lloyd

Some of us '90s kids had a weird rubbery Noid character with a wire frame that we could pose. Others simply just ate Domino's and watched their weird commercials that interrupted TGIF.

Matt Stonie via YouTube

This cookie company boasted 1,000 chocolate chips in every package, but how did their slogan go? "1000 Chips ______!"

In every bag

Cookie crisps

Delicious

In every cookie

We often wonder if anyone ever actually attempted to count the chocolate chips in a bag of Chips Ahoy! cookies. Additionally, we wonder if the chocolate chips at the bottom of the plastic rack counted toward the 1,000.

Big Time Toys

Socker boppers claimed to be "more fun than a ____" what?

Boxing match

Pillow fight

Soccer ball

Barrel of monkeys

Kids were pretty violent in the 1990s (mostly because there were so many violent cartoons, movies and video games for us to play). With Sock Boppers, parents could avoid bare knuckle boxing matches, and settle for broken noses.

Samuli Vainionpää / Moment / Getty Images

Kentucky Fried Chicken had a few slogans in the 1990s, can you finish this one? "We do _______"

Chicken right

Burgers too

Everything my way

Chicken nuggets

If your company has to tell people that they do something properly, they probably aren't doing something properly. As the pizza craze consumed children of the 1990s, KFC became less and less of a fast food option.

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Where is the taste in Honeycomb cereal? "The taste is in _______"

The bites

The spoon

The milk

The shape

No one is certain how you can see honey flavors in a small puffy flower made of wheat and corn, but for some reason this slogan resonated with us. (We know it was supposed to be a honeycomb shape, and not a flower shape, but just look at the cereal, would ya?)

Shutterstock

"Big on ______" What was a Three Musketeers bar big on?

Taste

Chocolate

Price

Value

In the 1990s, there were a lot of products that were big on taste and big on sugar, but Three Musketeerrs took it a step further, claiming to be big on chocolate. This is probably because they never had a Magnum ice cream bar.

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In the 1990s, Jolly Rancher candies came in a square package, but do you know how to finish their slogan? "Jolly Rancher candy, the great taste of fruit, ______"

In a square

Now in square shapes

Squared

The fruity squares

The Jolly Rancher commercials of the 1990s had to be some of the best commercials of all time. They played with words, had excellent visuals, and delivered a lot of information in just 30 seconds.

Pexels / Alex Alexander

Snapple always claimed to be "Made from the _______" what?

Tears of our enemies

Drink you love

Trees in faraway lands

Best stuff on Earth

Before the Snapple lady graced us with useless information, Snapple marketed its products like any other beverage company: with an athlete. We aren't sure how fake juice and iced tea help tennis performance, but Snapple knows the secret.

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What is the taste of Juicy Fruit going to do to you? "The taste is gonna ____"

Surprise you

Love you

Move ya

Groove ya

Juicy Fruit's flavor may have only lasted as long as the commercial ran, but it was a nice fruity flavor (although we couldn't identify what fruit we were tasting). For some reason, people thought it was a good idea to market gum that gave people energy ... even though it didn't.

theholdingbay via YouTube

In 1992, Coca Cola wanted you to drink their fountain drinks, and they wanted you to know that a fun time calls for something special. Can you finish the short-lived slogan? "This calls _____"

My best friend

For a coke

For a taste

For a refreshment

After "Have a Coke and a smile" and before people's names were on bottles, Coke had to try something new. They wanted to market their fountain drinks, and to do so, they showed high schoolers in an undisclosed restaurant getting refills. It probably didn't do much as this slogan didn't last long.

Wiki Commons by Maybelline New York

Can you finish this popular makeup slogan of the '90s? "Maybe she's born with it, maybe ________"

It's Sephora

It's Mac

It's Maybelline

It's Revlon

Even if you were young and didn't wear makeup in the '90s, you probably know this slogan as well as you know your birthday. Maybelline commercials were played during "90210" and other shows that starred teenagers played by twenty-somethings.

About This Quiz

Do you know what 15 minutes can save you? Do you have what it takes to avoid the ... whatever it is? We bet you know all about avoiding messing with Texas. If you're a '90s kid, you may have some vivid memories of the slogans that you heard on the radio and during your Saturday morning cartoon programming. This is not an accident. Everyone knows that a simple catchphrase or slogan can attract a kid to a product, and everyone knows that repetition is the foundation memory and retention. In the '90s, advertising took on a whole new role with slogans that did exactly what they were supposed to do: get stuck in people's heads for-e-ver.

If these earworms have attacked you, don't consider yourself a victim, because it all comes down to passing this quiz. You may be able to tell us what the San Francisco treat is, but you probably wouldn't be able to do it without singing the song tortured us in 1998 (woo-oo oh-ooh!).

'90s kids rejoice! We have the ultimate cheesy product slogan quiz for you. Finish these slogans and you will be the champion of 1990s advertising, but make a mistake, and we may have to send you to Y2K.

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